Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision?

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and don't.

It’s also the latest indication that Zuckerberg is trying to buddy up to incoming president Donald Trump, and is in that respect becoming more like Trump’s current right-hand man in tech: Elon Musk.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta trust and safety workers will be relocated to Texas to prevent them from “censoring” users. Experts point to other advantages.

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will roll back its fact-checking program. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Meta announced its new policy, stating that getting varied voices on the platform brings out the good, the bad, and the ugly in free speech; nonetheless, the restrictions on topics hitherto banned are now being lifted, “allowing more speech.”

Meta announces three new members to its board of directors, including UFC CEO Dana White, who had wanted Mark Zuckerberg to fight Elon Musk for charity.

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after Meta's shock announcement that it will halt its US programme.

X (formerly known as Twitter) has announced plans to label parody accounts. The social media site’s official Safety account has shared a post announcing that labels for parody accounts will be rolled out in the future.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is the latest in a long line of corporate executives to bend the knee to the president-elect